Is this normal??
04-11-02, 12:23 PM
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Anytime baby!
on the same note
Are any of ya'll semi-neurotic like me and not let ANYONE drive your FB? I count on maybe one hand the number people that have driven my car (aside from mechanics/inspection people). I won't let anyone drive it. Not even to move it out of the driveway if I am blocking someone. It's kinda like the love a mother has for a newborn baby. Partyly I don't trust other people to drive it, partly it has too many "quirks" to explain, and partly I don't really think they would appreciate it.
Right on.
Right on.
04-11-02, 12:28 PM
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You guys crack me up...but I'm right there with ya!
Whenever I'm out with my g/f and we just get home from somewhere...she gets out of the car and goes inside...I'm allways a minute behind her. She always asks what I was doing and I just tell her that I was staring at my 7.
Whenever I'm out with my g/f and we just get home from somewhere...she gets out of the car and goes inside...I'm allways a minute behind her. She always asks what I was doing and I just tell her that I was staring at my 7.
04-11-02, 01:28 PM
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yeah brownmound, i looked it up on one of those sites like felix miata's had whole bunch of color codes for first and second g's
have you ever fought rush hour madness and once at home felt really bad about turning the key off. seems like it gives a little extra purr like a cat thats still hungry.
have you ever fought rush hour madness and once at home felt really bad about turning the key off. seems like it gives a little extra purr like a cat thats still hungry.
04-11-02, 01:33 PM
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Hey at least most of you can or have driven your 7 in the past 2 years
I was young and stupid and let a friend borrow my 7 and it was broken into stolen...
Clarion cd deck w/ changer
4 JL w6 12" subs
rf 800 (old school) 4 channel
mtx crossover
and not to mention broken windows , dash , and torn leather seats
I didn't find out about this until she stripped the tranny one week after I lent it to her
unapprecieative beiotch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But of cource I have finally found a parts car and low and behold it was a package deal (2 7s for the price of 500 dollars 1 runs 1 just parts)
I still find myself climbing into my first seven and racing everything I can imagine in my backyard
preach on my brothers and sisters
long live the 7
reddy4fun
I was young and stupid and let a friend borrow my 7 and it was broken into stolen...
Clarion cd deck w/ changer
4 JL w6 12" subs
rf 800 (old school) 4 channel
mtx crossover
and not to mention broken windows , dash , and torn leather seats
I didn't find out about this until she stripped the tranny one week after I lent it to her
unapprecieative beiotch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But of cource I have finally found a parts car and low and behold it was a package deal (2 7s for the price of 500 dollars 1 runs 1 just parts)
I still find myself climbing into my first seven and racing everything I can imagine in my backyard
preach on my brothers and sisters
long live the 7
reddy4fun
04-11-02, 02:35 PM
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I would NEVERRRRR lend ANYONE my 7!!! Not even with me in the passenger seat, shifting the gears myself, and with a remote rev limiter set to 4k rpm!!! Thats MY CAR dammit MINE alone!!! You wanna burrow something of mine.... here take my girlfrined!!
04-11-02, 06:29 PM
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ROFL! 
I am not that Extreme like YellowJacket, but yeah. I stare at my car every time I go to my MILs. Of course, I actually hope to have it smogged sometime this century and be actually driving it again! 
But until then, I can always stare and sit in it!
Chris
I am not that Extreme like YellowJacket, but yeah. I stare at my car every time I go to my MILs. Of course, I actually hope to have it smogged sometime this century and be actually driving it again! But until then, I can always stare and sit in it!Chris
04-11-02, 08:56 PM
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I love the way FB's look. Whenever I have to go to my part time gas station job I always part my rex where I can stare at it when no customers are there. I stare at it even when they are anyway! I don't let anyone drive it either, for all the reasons previously mentioned. Peace everyone, rx7's 4ever
I don't let anyone drive it either, for all the reasons previously mentioned. Peace everyone, rx7's 4ever
04-11-02, 09:57 PM
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My rex is the second car I have ever owned, and my first manual transmission, shes in the garage right now, her engine on the stand in half a million pieces, waiting to purr once more, when she ran (for the week) it was a joy, I'd get off work at midnight, and walk into my house at 2:00, i can walk to my work in less than 15 mins...
Sometimes, I go into the garage and sit on the stairs, just looking at the front, on jackstands, no engine, just the gaping maw of an IMSA air dam staring back at me... and I smile.
before I leave to go anywhere i stick my head in the garage and look one last time, i get into my friends car and we go off to the bar, i say nothing, but the tune in my head repeats itself over and over again...
zoom zoom zoom
the rx-7 isn't just a car, its a style, in a class by itself.
and this is why i love it.
cheers'
Sometimes, I go into the garage and sit on the stairs, just looking at the front, on jackstands, no engine, just the gaping maw of an IMSA air dam staring back at me... and I smile.
before I leave to go anywhere i stick my head in the garage and look one last time, i get into my friends car and we go off to the bar, i say nothing, but the tune in my head repeats itself over and over again...
zoom zoom zoom
the rx-7 isn't just a car, its a style, in a class by itself.
and this is why i love it.
cheers'
04-12-02, 06:42 PM
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I've owned two before my 85 GSLSE.
1. 81 GSL
2. 85 S
Through my entire life I have never been more satisified with any other car I've ever owned. I have always considered all other cars "placeholders" until I found another 7. As far as I'm concerned the first gen rx-7 will be my only car.
As it is true with anything else, if you take care of it properly it will last forever.
Once I get some pics of my ride I'll post.
Peace.
M.
1. 81 GSL
2. 85 S
Through my entire life I have never been more satisified with any other car I've ever owned. I have always considered all other cars "placeholders" until I found another 7. As far as I'm concerned the first gen rx-7 will be my only car.
As it is true with anything else, if you take care of it properly it will last forever.
Once I get some pics of my ride I'll post.
Peace.
M.
04-16-02, 01:54 AM
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You think you got it made, i have to push start my car everytime i start is except the very first tie in the morning. I have to add coolant about three times a day, fill three out of four tires once a day, jack on the control arm because the jack punches through 298000 miles of rust on the frame, and wait for my new j-spec. This ofcourse is all after a 9 month wait when i decided to cange my manifld turbo gasket and put it together and no fuel no spark. 3 dealeships later and 9 months and i have a fucked air fow meter. then when it got fixed i was in arizona gong to school so i couln't even drive it i could only hear my friend tell me over the phone how the 3" straight back off the turbo sounds as he hit second adde a180 like nothing in our high school parking lot. yeah i would say only a 7-head would still be driving this thing as an everyday driver. When ibought the thing i had no idea what a rotary was i just knew the 87 t 2 was fast i learned and could do nothing but fall in love. Nothing on my car is ingod condition except the exaust and the huge blue flames it throws as i hit gears. I tell you one thing when i am done with this thing it will be spotless and unbeatable and nothing less,that is all i can settle for, the 7deservs it. Never been in a situation like this one and wont love another one bettter. Ryan
04-16-02, 11:34 AM
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Originally posted by speckamp
People that never owned one, or never spent much time behind the wheel of one can't understand, because not much else can give you the same feeling as one of these cars.
--matt
People that never owned one, or never spent much time behind the wheel of one can't understand, because not much else can give you the same feeling as one of these cars.
--matt
Originally posted by speckamp
I quite often find myself humming engine noises to myself, immitating a blow off valve and grinning.
I quite often find myself humming engine noises to myself, immitating a blow off valve and grinning.
That's why I got one now, I never realized my dream of a Turbo First Gen...
soon...
04-16-02, 12:26 PM
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If I were to get any other car, it would either be an older Subaru (long story but very nice cars) or a first-gen Miata.
Try this. Sit in an SA22C. Note the positioning of the pedals, the steering wheel, the dash vents, etc. Then sit in a 1st-gen Miata. It feels almost exactly the same. They drive pretty durn similarly, too, especially if you get an early 1.6l with manual steering.
Try this. Sit in an SA22C. Note the positioning of the pedals, the steering wheel, the dash vents, etc. Then sit in a 1st-gen Miata. It feels almost exactly the same. They drive pretty durn similarly, too, especially if you get an early 1.6l with manual steering.
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